" Monty is back at Longmeadow, getting stuck into more seasonal tasks.
Joe Swift heads to Houghton Lodge Gardens in Hampshire, renowned for its walled kitchen garden and heritage fruit collection.
We visit Rachel de Thame’s garden, where she has been experimenting with growing different and unusual cut flowers. She is joined by floral artist and designer Hazel Gardiner as they both create their own unique flower arrangements.
Plus lots of ideas and suggestions from our viewers' own gardens "
I liked the viewers gardens...after that the FF button got some serious usage.
As ever, Monty's magic touch had me dozing off without registering anything - until I woke up with a wet feeling. I'd been holding a mug of mint tea and it had slipped and poured all over my legs and the sofa. I really should know better as he does it every week I watch it live and that's why I record it.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I had to laugh at the bonsai bloke last week when he talked about shaping trees, and how the abstract ones wouldn't look that way in the natural world, or words to that effect. There's a man who's never been on a hill - or a moor.
I didn't enjoy much of this week's episode after finding it a bit more interesting recently. [I'd not watched it for at least a year or 18 months] Someone on the forum was asking about growing flowers for cutting, after seeing it, and I said Rachel's area for veg and flowers is bigger than my entire garden - and probably bigger than most people's. Have you dried off yet @Obelixx?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes thanks @Fairygirl. Jeans on a radiator tho no CH yet. Cushion out in the sun and sofa "doggy" cover washed and dried in the sun too.
Looking forward to watching the Rachel cutting garden whilst awake as I have to confess I have not had the discipline to cut my dahlias regularly for the house. They've been full of bees and other buzzy things tho so worth growing.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It's the last Gardeners World tomorrow for this year.
I've just watched last week's episode. One item was Monty planting pots of miniature daffodils. One variety he mentioned was "Minnow" but the variety shown on the screen was not Minnow. Did anyone notice?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
🤔 Doesn’t look like the usual N. Pheasants Eye … the petals are the wrong shape and that’s quite a tall daffodil, … they look more like a Tazetta type (a miniature daff often used for rockery planting) … there’s a lot of named varieties out there 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
" In the final episode of the series, Monty is preparing for spring colour and sowing broad beans. Adam Frost meets the head gardener at Broughton Grange in Oxfordshire to find out how he manages the garden to ensure that it connects with the wider landscape. Toby Buckland visits Sue Kent’s garden near Swansea to help out with autumnal maintenance, we head to Norwich and the UK’s only national collection of muscari, and in Nottinghamshire a couple share their bright ideas for a shady woodland garden. Also, there are lots of suggestions from our viewers' own gardens. "
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There's a man who's never been on a hill - or a moor.
I didn't enjoy much of this week's episode after finding it a bit more interesting recently. [I'd not watched it for at least a year or 18 months] Someone on the forum was asking about growing flowers for cutting, after seeing it, and I said Rachel's area for veg and flowers is bigger than my entire garden - and probably bigger than most people's.
Have you dried off yet @Obelixx?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looking forward to watching the Rachel cutting garden whilst awake as I have to confess I have not had the discipline to cut my dahlias regularly for the house. They've been full of bees and other buzzy things tho so worth growing.
I've just watched last week's episode. One item was Monty planting pots of miniature daffodils. One variety he mentioned was "Minnow" but the variety shown on the screen was not Minnow. Did anyone notice?
It looks like Pheasant's Eye...presumably post production they made the mistake.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Last in the series. 8pm.
" In the final episode of the series, Monty is preparing for spring colour and sowing broad beans. Adam Frost meets the head gardener at Broughton Grange in Oxfordshire to find out how he manages the garden to ensure that it connects with the wider landscape. Toby Buckland visits Sue Kent’s garden near Swansea to help out with autumnal maintenance, we head to Norwich and the UK’s only national collection of muscari, and in Nottinghamshire a couple share their bright ideas for a shady woodland garden. Also, there are lots of suggestions from our viewers' own gardens. "